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By Chris Wright

"And the cheque's in the post, yes?"

FIFA have decreed that they'd prefer the pesky old 2022 Qatar World Cup to not be played in the sweltering, 35-45Â°c Gulf emirate summertime but rather in the altogether more clement 25-30Âºc Gulf emirate 'winter', after general secretary Jerome Valcke provisionally confirmed today that the tournament will be held between November and January.